brachylogy

English

Alternative forms

• brachyology, brachylogia

Etymology

From Late Latin brachylogia from Ancient Greek βραχυλογία (brakhulogía), from βραχύς (brakhús, “short”) +‎ -λογία (-logía, “speech”), equivalent to brachy- +‎ -logy; compare brachyology.

Pronunciation

• enPR: bră-kĭlʹə-jē, IPA^(key): /bɹæˈkɪl.ə.d͡ʒi/
• Hyphenation: bra‧chyl‧o‧gy

Noun

brachylogy (countable and uncountable, plural brachylogies)

1. Concise speech; laconism.
2. (rhetoric) Any of several forms of omission of words, including the omission of an understood part of a phrase, as, the omission of "good" from "(good) morning!"

Hyponyms

• (rhetoric): zeugma, syllepsis, apokoinou, compendious comparison, praegnans constructio, asyndeton, aposiopesis

Translations

concise speech

• French: brachylogie (fr) f
• German: Brachylogie f
• Greek: βραχυλογία (el) f (vrachylogía)
• Italian: brachilogia (it) f
• Latin: brachylogia f
• Malay: brakilogi
• Portuguese: braquilogia (pt) f
• Slovak: brachylógia (sk) f
• Spanish: braquilogía f
• Swedish: brakylogi c

See also

• ellipsis

Further reading

• “brachylogy”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “brachylogy, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “brachylogy, n.”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC, page 653, column 1.
• “brachylogy, n.”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney and Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1914), “brachylogy, n.”, in The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language, revised edition, volume I, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC, page 653, column 1.